(23) Joe Palmer - The Free Man

Tonight's story deals with Joseph Palmer, "Old Jew Palmer" as he was called in 1830 by some of the people of Massachusetts, though he was not old, and he was not a Jew. But he did wear a Jew's beard, long and full and flowing, and the people of his community told him to 'take it off', but Joe Palmer wouldn't do that. He said his face and his whiskers were his own - that he was "A Free Man".